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What can GateKeeper do for Java Applet?

April 26, 2017applet Gatekeeper Java

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What can GateKeeper do for Java Applet?

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GateKeeper is a web server, i.e., GateKeeper can load all resourced needed by a Java Applet. But GateKeeper is not a high performance and scalable web server. In fact, it was never a goal to develop GateKeeper as a web server to replace current commercial web servers. So the correct way to use Gatekeeper for a Java Applet is to use a commercial web server to start the Applet and use Gatekeeper only for HTTP tunneled IIOP requests. In order to to do so, Gatekeeper needs to run on the same host of the web server and its stringified IOR should be publishable by the web server. In case Applet needs to do “bind”, GateKeeper can do binding for the Applet. All Applet needs to do is specify vbroker.locator.ior=http://host:port/gatekeeper.ior. GateKeeper supports the following HTTP proxy servers, MS Proxy Server 2.0, Netscape Proxy Server 3.5, and WinGate Proxy Server 3.0.5. GateKeeper supports the following web browsers, Netscape Communicator 4.6 and Internet Explore 5.0. GateKeeper also suppo